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Rainey Brake
Rainey is a name of British-Irish origin. People with the surname * Bobby Rainey (born 1987), American National Football League player * Chuck Rainey (born 1940), American bassist * David "Puck" Rainey (born 1968), American reality TV personality * Darren Rainey (1962–2012), American prison inmate who died of burns from a scalding shower * Edward Rainey (born 1961), Scottish painter * Ford Rainey (1908–2005), American actor * Grace Rainey Rogers (1867–1943), American art collector, philanthropist * Henry Thomas Rainey (1860–1934), American politician * John W. Rainey (1880–1923), U.S. Representative from Illinois * John Rainey (baseball) (1864–1912), American Major League Baseball player * John David Rainey (born 1945), U.S. federal judge * Jon Douglas Rainey (born 1970), American professional thief on the reality TV show ''It Takes a Thief'' * Joseph Rainey (1832–1887), American politician, first African-American United States Representative and second biracial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Rainey
Bobby Gene Rainey, Jr. (born October 16, 1987) is a former American football running back and return specialist. He signed with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has also played for the Cleveland Browns, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Giants. He played college football at Western Kentucky. College career In 2011, Rainey had 1,695 rushing yards and 17 total touchdowns while playing running back at Western Kentucky University. In 2010, Rainey was one of the top rushers in College Football. He led the nation in rushing attempts (340) and was third in the nation in rushing yards (1649). He was named the Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2010 as well as earning All-American honors from SI.com. In July 2011, he was named to the Maxwell Award Watch List. In August, he was named to the Doak Walker Award Watch list. In 2009, he totaled over 2,100 yards and gained notoriety as one of the premier Kick Returners in College Football. His two offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Feature Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. The Feature Photography prize was inaugurated in 1968 when the single Pulitzer Prize for Photography was replaced by the Feature prize and "Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography", renamed for "Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography" in 2000. Winners and citations One Feature Photography Pulitzer has been awarded annually from 1968 without exception. * 1968: Toshio Sakai, ''United Press International'', "for his Vietnam War combat photograph, ' Dreams of Better Times'." * 1969: Moneta Sleet Jr. of ''Ebony'', "for his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's funeral." * 1970: Dallas Kinney, '' Palm Beach Post (Florida)'', "for his portfolio of pictures of Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East African Cheetah
The East African cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus jubatus''), is a cheetah population in East Africa. It lives in grasslands and savannas of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia. The cheetah inhabits mainly the Serengeti ecosystem, including Maasai Mara, and the Tsavo landscape. A cheetah from British East Africa was described by the American zoologist Edmund Heller in 1913. He proposed the trinomen ''Felis jubatus raineyi'' as a distinct subspecies. It also was recognized as several other distinct subspecies, such as ''A. j. ngorongorensis'' and ''A. j. velox''. In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group subsumed ''A. j. raineyi'' to '' A. j. jubatus''. In 2007, the total number of cheetahs in East Africa were estimated at 1,960 to 2,572 adults and independent adolescents. East African cheetahs form the second-largest population after the Southern African cheetah. In 2007, there were between 569 and 1,007 cheetahs in Tanzania, between 710 and 793 cheet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Rainey-Valmon
Meredith Lee Rainey-Valmon (born October 15, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American runner who specialized in the 800 metres. Her personal best time was 1:57.04 minutes, achieved at the 1996 Olympic Trials. She is also a two-time Olympian, in 1992 and 1996. In 1996, she married fellow US Olympian, 400m runner and 1992 Olympic 4x400 gold medalist Andrew Valmon. Running for Harvard University, she dominated Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools ... competition and won two NCAA Championships in the 800 meters in 1989, Indoors and Outdoors. She graduated in 1990. International competitions References External links * Profileat ''USA Track & Field'' 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Brooklyn Track and field athletes from New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainey Haynes
Rainey Haynes (born August 16, 1964 in Memphis, Tennessee) also known simply as Rainey, is an American rock singer and writer. Early life Haynes showed an interest in singing, songwriting, and performing early, and had taught herself to play guitar by age 13. Career At 18, she moved to New Orleans, where she formed a rock band. By her early 20s, she was touring the South with her band; she toured Europe and the Near East to entertain U.S. troops. Returning to the U.S., she continued to travel, performing with her band. In Nashville she recorded an album for MCA Records produced by Ron Chancy, and she was nominated "Most Promising New Artist of the Year" by the Country Music Association. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles, where she played at Southern California music venues with a new version of her band. It variously included Steve Farris (lead guitarist for Mr. Mister), Bob Birch (long time bass player for Elton John), Rocket Ritchotte (former guitarist for David Lee Roth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Volunteers Softball
The Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team represents the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, Tennessee in NCAA Division I women's softball competition. Coached by Karen Weekly, the team has become a consistently top tier team in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Along with all other UT women's sports teams, it used the nickname "Lady Volunteers" (or the short form "Lady Vols") until the 2015–16 school year, when the school dropped the "Lady" prefix from the nicknames of all women's teams except in basketball. In September 2017, the “Lady Volunteers” name was reinstated for all women’s athletics teams. Overview The Lady Vols first fielded a softball team in 1996 with Jim Beitia as head coach. In 2002, Tennessee brought in the husband and wife team of Ralph and Karen Weekly as co-head coaches. Since 2004, the team has reached the NCAA Tournament every year and the Women's College World Series five times. In 2007 the Lady Vols managed to make history finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainey Bethea
Rainey Bethea ( – August 14, 1936) was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. Mistakes in performing the hanging, and the surrounding media circus, contributed to the end of public executions in the United States. Early life Little is known about Bethea's life before he arrived in Owensboro in 1933. Born around 1909 in Roanoke, Virginia, Bethea was an African-American man orphaned after the death of his mother in 1919 and his father in 1926. He worked for the Rutherford family and lived in their basement for about a year, and then he moved to a cabin behind the house of a man named Emmett Wells. He worked as a laborer and later rented a room from a woman, Mrs. Charles Brown. He also attended a Baptist church. Bethea's first run-in with the law happened in 1935, when he was charged with breach of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainey Bennett
Rainey Bennett (June 14, 1907 – July 26, 1998) was an American artist, illustrator and muralist. His works have been displayed in major museum art collections. Work The art collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York include some of Rainey's artwork. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC contains a watercolor, ''Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1952'', as part of its permanent collection. The Art Institute of Chicago has three of Bennett's pieces in its collection. Illustrator In addition to his painting, Bennett also worked as a freelance book illustrator and had a longtime working relationship with Scott Foresman publishers. Every holiday season, he illustrated the daily Christmas newspaper ads for Marshall Field's. In 1960, Bennett wrote as well as illustrated his own children's book, ''The Secret Hiding Place'', about a baby hippopotamus in search of a secret hiding place. Murals Murals were produced from 1934 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rainey Harper
William Rainey Harper (July 24, 1856 – January 10, 1906) was an American academic leader, an accomplished semiticist, and Baptist clergyman. Harper helped to establish both the University of Chicago and Bradley University and served as the first president of both institutions. Early life Harper was born on July 24, 1856, in New Concord, Ohio,The original log cabin that was William Rainey Harper’s birthplace has been preserved and is located in New Concord, Ohio, across from the main gate of Muskingum College. to parents of Irish-Scottish ancestry. Very early in his life, Harper displayed skills years ahead of other children of his age, and he was labeled a child prodigy. By the age of eight, Harper began preparing for college-level courses. At the age of ten he enrolled in Muskingum College in his native New Concord, Ohio. At the age of fourteen, he graduated from Muskingum College. In 1872, Harper enrolled in Yale University to begin his postgraduate studies, and he comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Rainey
Wayne Wesley Rainey (born October 23, 1960) is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he won the 500cc World Championship three times and the Daytona 200 once. He was characterized by his smooth, calculating riding style, and for his intense rivalry with compatriot Kevin Schwantz, between 1987 and 1993. Racing history Rainey began his career racing in the A.M.A. Grand National Championship, a series that encompassed four distinct dirt track disciplines plus road races. In 1981, he finished the Grand National season as the 15th ranked dirt track racer in the country. Following his success in the Novice 250cc roadrace class, Kawasaki hired him to compete in the 1982 AMA Superbike Championship as a teammate to the then defending National Champion Eddie Lawson. The following year, Lawson moved to the Grand Prix circuit and Rainey took over the role of leading rider, earning the 1983 National Championship for Kawasaki. In 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanner Rainey
Tanner Scott Rainey (born December 25, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. He made his MLB debut with the Reds in 2018. Career Rainey attended St. Paul's School in Covington, Louisiana. He played college baseball at Southeastern Louisiana University and the University of West Alabama as a pitcher and first baseman. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds as a pitcher in the second round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Cincinnati Reds Rainey signed with the Reds, made his professional debut with the Billings Mustangs, and spent the whole season there, pitching to a 2-2 record and 4.27 ERA in 15 starts. He pitched 2016 with the Dayton Dragons and was 5-10 with a 5.57 ERA in 29 games (20 starts), and 2017 with the Daytona Tortugas and Pensacola Blue Wahoos, compiling a combined 3-3 record and 3.19 ERA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert E
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
